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A made for TV live musical
owner@device:~$ youtube-dl --ap-mso DTV --ap-username [username] --ap-password [password] --verbose https://abc.com/shows/the-little-mermaid-live/episode-guide/season-01/01-the-wonderful-world-of-disney-presents-the
-little-mermaid-live
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--ap-mso', u'DTV', u'--ap-username', u'PRIVATE', u'--ap-password', u'PRIVATE', u'--verbose', u'https://abc.com/shows/the-little-mermaid-live/episode-guide/season-01/01-the-wonderful-world-of-disney-presents-the-little-mermaid-live']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-18362-Microsoft-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.1-0york0, ffprobe 4.2.1-0york0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Go] 01-the-wonderful-world-of-disney-presents-the-little-mermaid-live: Downloading webpage
[Go] VDKA13932659: Downloading JSON metadata
[Go] VDKA13932659: Downloading Provider Redirect Page
[Go] VDKA13932659: Downloading Provider Login Page
[Go] VDKA13932659: Logging in
ERROR: Unable to extract post url; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py", line 187, in _real_extract
url, video_id, requestor_id, resource)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/adobepass.py", line 1516, in _extract_mvpd_auth
post_form(mvpd_confirm_page_res, 'Confirming Login')
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/adobepass.py", line 1365, in post_form
post_url = self._html_search_regex(r'<form[^>]+action=(["'])(?P.+?)\1', form_page, 'post url', group='url')
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1014, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1005, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract post url; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.